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1396 BCE
Creation of Chair of Greek in Florence
teacher Chrysoloras brings a copy of Ptolemy’s Geography. -
1347 BCE
The Black Death
The black death ravages through europe in 1347, this changes peoples lives in an economic, emotional, and financial way. many many many people died from the black death and it still haunts people today. http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/therenaissance/a/rentimeline.htm -
1347 BCE
The Death of Petrarch
Death of Petrarch, a man called the father of the Renaissance but undoubtedly a genius. -
Feb 15, 1517
The Reformation
The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era -
Galileo makes change (Enlightenment)
Galileo determines through his invention of the telescope that the planets revolve around the sun, opposed to the earlier viewpoint that they, including the sun, revolve around earth. Galileo's work was considered anti-church, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Church admitted the sentencing was a mistake in 1992. -
The French Revolution Song